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Evangelical Amnesia
In a well-known 1922 sermon, Harry Emerson Fosdick threw down the gauntlet to fundamentalism when he demanded whether “anybody has the right to deny the Christian name to those...
The New Populism
The Great Betrayal by patrick j. buchanan little, brown. 384 pp. $22.95 Readers of a certain age will recall when the tariff seemed the very stuff of American history....
Reclaiming Natural Law
Written on the Heart: The Case for Natural Law by j. budziszewski intervarsity press, 240 pages, $18.62 A Preserving Grace: Protestants, Catholics and Natural Law edited by michael cromartie...
Declinism—and Fall?
Why America Doesn’t Work by Chuck Colson and Jack Eckerd Word Publishing, 227 pages, $16.99 In Why America Doesn’t Work, Charles Colson and Jack Eckerd retell the Jay Leno...
Evangelicals and Politics
The Scattered Voice: Christians at Odds in the Public Square by james w. skillen zondervan, 225 pages In the minds of many people, American evangelicalism is closely identified with...
Beyond Liberty
This Hemisphere of Liberty: A Philosophy of the Americas by michael novak aei press, 153 pages, $18.95 We are nearly two years into the post-Cold War era—an era as...
Religion and the New South Africa
Since Nelson Mandela’s release from prison, the prospects for peaceful change in South Africa have seemingly improved. Whether those prospects are realized, and whether South Africa will join the...
